The internet entrepreneur and Janina Youssefian show off a Playboy centrefold of herselfRex Features

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Mr Dotcom had to be cut out of a safe room by police at his home in New ZealandNatalie Slade/AP

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Tow trucks remove vehicles from his house in Coatesville, northwest of AucklandNatalie Slade/AP

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There were 18 cars at the mansion, including this Rolls-Royce PhantomNew Zealand Police/Reuters

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He was deemed an extreme flight risk because of his vast wealth and multiple aliases

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Prosecutors found more than 45 credit cards in different names at his mansion

Sophie TedmansonSydney

Published at 12:01AM, January 24 2012

More details emerged today about the flamboyant lifestyle of Kim Dotcom, the
multimillionaire founder of Megaupload.com who is accused by the FBI of
internet piracy and money laundering.

Mr Dotcom - a German who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz - was
arrested last week after police burst into the panic room of his NZ$30
million (£15 million) rented New Zealand mansion. A court was told today
that he had been found in possession of an illegal sawn-off shotgun.

The German was charged with criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to
commit racketeering as the FBI shut his Hong Kong-based website - which